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The Delightful Horror of Family Birding

Sharing Nature with the Next Generation

By: Eli J. Knapp

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The Delightful Horror of Family Birding

Sharing Nature with the Next Generation

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For the nature lover with a sense of humor." —SIERRA MAGAZINE Eli Knapp takes readers from a leaky dugout canoe in Tanzania and the mating grounds of Ecuador's cock–of–the–rock to a juniper titmouse's perch at the Grand Canyon and the migration of hooded mergansers in a New York swamp, exploring life's deepest questions all along the way. In this collection of essays, Knapp intentionally flies away from the flock, reveling in insights gleaned from birds, his students, and the wide–eyed wonder his children experience. The Delightful Horror of Family Birding navigates the world in hopes that appreciation of nature will burn intensely for generations to come, not peter out in merely a flicker. Whether traveling solo or with his students or children, Knapp levels his gaze on the birds that share our skies, showing that birds can be a portal to deeper relationships, ecological understanding, and newfound joy. ELI J. KNAPP, PhD, is professor of intercultural studies and biology at Houghton College and director of the Houghton in Tanzania program. Knapp is a regular contributor to Bird Watcher's Digest, New York State Conservationist, and other publications. An avid birdwatcher, hiker, and kayaker, he lives in Fillmore, New York, with his wife and children.

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1937226921

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Wild Hope Amid the Sixth Extinction

By: Eli J. Knapp

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Wild Hope Amid the Sixth Extinction

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FOREWORD INDIES BRONZE WINNER, ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT "Diverting descriptions of flora and fauna lead into captivating lessons about biological principles, all of which are embellished with humor. A rousing read." —FOREWORD REVIEWS Through personal stories of mishap and adventure, historical vignettes, and scenic detours, professor Eli J. Knapp dissects eighteen critical forces that lie behind the earth's sixth extinction. Drawing from experiences across the globe, Knapp peeks into odd and overlooked corners of natural history, showing how ocean–going tortoises and ghost deer can both instruct and inspire. Full of humor, hope, and self–effacing scientific savvy, Knapp's exploration of our home planet provides welcome respite in a deadly serious subject. ELI J. KNAPP, PhD, has had a fascination with wildlife ever since obsessively counting deer on his bus rides to school as a kid. His wildlife interests have put him into kayaks, hot air balloons, dilapidated land rovers, and many pairs of hiking boots in search of new species and experiences. When not watching birds, Eli teaches courses in conservation biology, wildlife behavior, human ecology, and Swahili at Houghton College in western New York, where he is a tenured professor of intercultural studies and biology. His research interests spawn out of a three–year stint living in Serengeti National Park, where he studied the coexistence of people and wildlife around protected areas. Eli now enjoys sharing nature with his wife and three children, and has chronicled his adventures in The Delightful Horror of Family Birding: Sharing Nature with the Next Generation.

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Sharing Nature with the Next Generation

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Homing

Lessons from Birds on Finding Our Place in the World

By: Eli J Knapp

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Lessons from Birds on Finding Our Place in the World

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Homing is the story of one man's hilarious, sometimes quixotic quest to understand the meaning of place--and, for the rest of us, a manifesto for being truly present in the natural world. Eli J. Knapp is a birder, ornithology professor, award-winning writer, and someone who can't quite shake the nearly-pervasive sense of rootlessness that comes with living on this mess of a planet. After years of studying and teaching about birds all over the world, Knapp set out to discover what birds may have to teach us about how to connect to the natural world. The end result isn't a book about looking at birds. It's a book through which birds offer an unexpected invitation to look further into ourselves and more deeply at the world around us. From the woods of western New York to the jungles of Ecuador to the wetlands of Africa, Knapp takes us on a series of captivating and humorous journeys to see the world from a bird's eye view. In these avian worlds, we discover new ways of understanding how we fit into a more-than-human context and see how birds demonstrate the potential to unlock relationships--with one another and with place. Homing reminds us that even though we may not always find the answers we were looking for, it's not because we didn't search hard enough. Finding our place in the world isn't a question of being in the right place at the right time; it is, instead, the deceptively simple revelation that we have been asking the wrong question all along.

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